Stemming Exceptions

Stemming reduces a word to a shorter base form, which increases recall in search. For
example, if we use stemming at index time, all the words such as locks, locker, and locked
are stemmed to lock.

A search for lock returns all the documents that have these different forms of the word.
You can configure Salesforce B2C Commerce to automatically overwrite the default
stemming for known misspelled terms. For example, the term stem of leggings or bedding
is leg and bed, respectively; which, in both cases, is inappropriate, and will not help
the consumer find products. Using an exceptions list, the keyword bedding will only find
products containing bedding, and the keyword bed will only find products containing bed.

You can specify more than one term for the same stem if you want to consider plural forms
or other combinations. For example, the keyword towel finds products containing towels
and towel and the keyword towels does the same.